Arkitect
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My favorite is the PBS The Civil War documentary:
The Civil War | Ken Burns | PBS | Watch The Civil War | Ken Burns | PBS
The Civil War is an epic nine-episode series by the award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns.www.pbs.org
Followed closely by the book Killer Angels which covers primarily the Battle of Gettysburg. After this two more books were written (by the authors son who had passed) to cover the beginning and middle of the war. Despite having a huge industrial base, things did not go well for the Union at the start, up to the middle of the war. The first half of the war was a resounding Southern success until Lincoln got Grant into the action.
Yes, the Ken Burns documentary is certainly a great recommendation — though not without its flaws… A few years ago I read this:
Ken Burns's The Civil War : Historians Respond and it certainly makes you look at the PBS series in a new light.
Killer Angels — that is the book the film Gettysburg was "based" on I think? Ah, Gettysburg the film… those bad fake beards!
